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Walk out & civil disobediance on Nov 2nd

by Sacto Valley solidarity rally!!
There is some controversy about the organizers of the WCW Nov 2nd walk-out possibly beings RCP members. Written to dispel myths that showing solidarity by walking out & doing civil disobedience equals supporting the RCP ideology. Anbody can organize a breakaway or independent action wherever they reside, whatever they believe. Agree to disagree. Solidarity to oust the illegal and amoral Bush regime!!
Even if people don't want to attend the World Can't Wait rally, it would be good to walk out of class and/or work anyway on Nov 2nd. The solidarity effect of a large scale walk-out is what effects the system the most. If u don't want to listen to a bunch of speeches at the rally, just go for a walk and smoke a joint or something. Hell, have a beer even, just please skip work or school today to maximize the effect of a walk-out solidarity. Anybody can organize a realtively spontaneous break-away march if they don't feel like hanging out with the RCP/WCW folks..

Be creative and use your imagination. There's alot of fun merry prankster routines people can perform if they want something besides rank and file RCP/WCW organizing. Obviously business as usual is the worst possible choice for showing solidarity with people trying their hardest to drive out the Bush regime. For what it's worth the RCP may not be my cup of tea either, but i respect them for their work at organizing and spreading the message..

Up in Chico we are walking out of CSU @ 10 am and later on after a non-violent die-in demonstration marching to Wally Herger's office to loudly protest his policy of militarism and ecocide. Herger is kind of isolated so we need to raise our voices for him to hear us. Herger is the longtime Repthuglican representative for the far northeast sector of CA. In addition to decades of environmental destruction to benefit the wealthy ranchers at the expense of rios, Herger has also endorsed many of the Bush regimes worst ideas, including the privacy invading Patriot Act. Herger follows the orders of the Bush regime and pledges taxpayer dollars to support the militarization of CA. Many of the seasonal vernal pool wetlands were destroyed by the suburban sprawl that benefits the developers at the expense of the environment and low income housing..

"I read where Rep. Wally Herger, R-Marysville, is going to bat for George Schmidbauer, owner of lumber mills in Eureka and Texas and property in southeast Chico, in Schmidbauer's efforts to sell land to the Chico Unified School District, which wants to build a new high school. Herger, according to the Enterprise-Record, will use his influence as a long-time congressman to talk with newly appointed U.S. Secretary of the Interior Gail Norton. The property in question until now has been deemed unacceptable for a new school because of environmental constraints, and so far the Army Corps of Engineers has put the clamps on any development. Actually, the 50- to 70-acre lot needed for the school would be acceptable for development by itself, but Schmidbauer wants to tie additional acreage onto the deal and get blanket approval for residential development in the process. So I guess Herger hopes to convince Norton that the vernal pools, meadowfoam and fairy shrimp present on the property don't need as much protection as they did under the Clinton administration. I don't see where it will take much convincing on Herger's part. Norton is the former Colorado attorney general who's been called "a friend to industry," which is a fairly common description of those filling the Bush administration's cabinet posts. In other words, the change in political winds blowing out of Washington, D.C., will most likely be felt here on the regional level fairly soon. Just last week Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck resigned after four years on the job under a Democratic administration. Dombeck was a biologist, someone who understood how ecosystems work and who questioned the scientific validity of using commercial tree harvesting as a means of forest preservation. Under the Bush administration expect another "friend to industry" to be placed in charge of our national forests, including Plumas and Lassen."

http://www.newsreview.com/issues/chico/2001-04-05/inside.asp

In Chico we are doing this independent of the RCP/WCW though in solidarity with the WCW protests around the world. Personally i have not seen proof that the RCP are the organizers of the WCW since this doesn't really matter to me that much anyway. Am not a member of any organization and consider myself a free wheel semi-activist with green anarchist tendencies..

Any city or town can do something like this without swearing allegiance to Chairman Mao's ghost or Bob Avakian (whomever that is). It only takes a few people in a given community to organize something to express their dislike of the Bush regime's activities..

There's even a Nov 2nd walk-out and demonstration in the small town of Red Bluff on the upper Sac Rio & off the I-5 south of Redding. Not very many RCP members up here either. If anything the people in Red Bluff are mostly libertarians sick and tired off the Bush regime using their tax dollars to fund the military occupation of Iraq for petroleum corporation profits. Also people here are not happy about a proposed medical waste incinerating facility that would add tons of toxins into the north valley air every year. Like the wind tunnel funnel effect of the north Sacto valley doesn't have enough problems with the smog y pesticides blowing north up the valley every summer, now people need to breathe burning medical waste on top of that?

So wherever you are, whatever u believe, Nov 2nd is a great day for a walk out and use non-violent civil disobedience to express opposition the the Bush regime. Solidarity against tyranny!!

luna moth
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by Shut up Steve, you are a pathetic coward
All you do is flame baiting, trolling on this site. What are you scared of?
You don't have to answer that. We've seen you feebly attempt debate and run after you fumble and get stomped....
Typical right wing shallow sheep.
by Herger's staff closed office Nov 2nd
Maybe the staff of Walter Herger's office participated in the walk-out from work day on Nov 2nd because when we arrived outside of his castle, er, office @ the back of Philadelphia Square (office complex off North Esplanade in Chico) there was nobody home. All of the Herger staff had gone home for the day and we left after a die-in on Herger's front lawn. An imaginary "honest Wally Herger" showed up and answered some questions as if the real Wally had taken some truth serum and was unable to lie (his usual strategy when dealing with the public)..

Earlier on the 2nd @ noon we marched along the Esplanade in Chico from downtown after symbolic die-ins in the crosswalks after the rally @ CSU campus. We didn't block the intersection beyond the stop light's duration, it was a series of symbolic events to show the daily loss of life in the ongoing occupation in Iraq. Each one of us died many deaths in the crosswalks, though not even close to approaching the real number of casualites of US soldiers and Iraqi civilians from the US occupation of Iraq under the Bush regime..

Throughout this time along the march north up the Esplanade we were followed by police and discovered armed SWAT teams and police in full riot gear hiding out behind Herger's office. Many Chico PD recieved overtime pay, they outnumbered us that day. Maybe they were waiting for some activists to rappel up the castle like walls of Herger's office and unfurl a banner or something. The police left without arresting anyone, protesters remained non-violent and to our knowledge no Moltov cocktails were thrown..

Would like to thank all the Chico organizers for putting this together, by putting the pressure on Repthugbootlickin' Representative Walter Herger, we were able to show that the people do matter. Our demands for a town hall meeting with Rep. Herger weren't met yet, as in Redding, when Herger does show up at town meetings he expects people to obey and remain silent. Herger discovered in Redding a few months/weeks ago that many of the people there didn't agree with him, he lost his temper & told someone to "Shut up" and ended the meeting early. Guess even the conservative leaning Redding doesn't like obvious stooges like Herger who tows the line of the Bush regime without listening to the objections of his constituency..

Rest assurred people will be visiting our Rep. Walter Herger's castle/office in the near future. no hiding out from public accountability, Walter. Some other ideas are a critical mass riding up the Esplanade and circling the plaza. Free speech will not be stifled by police state fascism..

luna moth
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